Duarte-López, Ariel (Date of defense: 2021-02-05)
The Zipf distribution, also known as discrete Pareto distribution, attracts considerable attention because it helps describe skewed data from many natural as well as man-made systems. Under the Zipf ...
Alarcón Soto, Yovaninna (Date of defense: 2021-06-30)
The present dissertation contributes to Data Science in the Human lmmunodeficiency Virus (HIV) field, addressing specific issues related to the modelling of data coming from three different clinical ...
Vilaró Pacheco, Marta (Date of defense: 2021-07-15)
This PhD thesis is concerned with evaluating the long-term effects of interventions in the editorial peer review process of a biomedical journal. The growing need to increase the value of research and ...
Molins Lleonart, Eduard (Date of defense: 2021-05-28)
In applications for generic medicinal products the concept of bioequivalence is fundamental. Two medicinal products, i.e. a test and a reference drugs containing the same active substance are considered ...
Xampeny Solaní, Rafael (Date of defense: 2018-06-20)
The thesis is structured in five articles. In the first article, two methods are compared to analyze the significance of the effects: the Lenth method and the one based on the estimation of the variance ...
Bofill Roig, Marta (Date of defense: 2020-12-22)
Defining the scientific question is the starting point for any clinical study. However, even though the main objective is generally clear, how this is addressed is not usually straightforward. Clinical ...
Serra Burriel, Feliu (Date of defense: 2022-04-19)
The work presented in this dissertation is a compendium of articles based on three main applications of advanced statistical methodologies on real-world complex datasets. The first application concerns ...